IMJS: Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives Columbia University

Annual Nabunken Lectures with Prof. Takayuki Seino and Prof. Yasuharu Hoshino
2014-09-17 18:00 (America/New_York) | 200 Buell
Annual Nabunken Lectures
Prof. Takayuki Seino, “Ideal Management of Historical Parks: From the Past to the Present to the Future”
Prof. Yasuharu Hoshino, “A Review of the Application of Dendrochronology to Japanese Cultural Heritage”

CHANEL Pygmalion Days Special Concert Series
2014-06-16 18:30 | Chanel Nexus Hall (Tokyo), Ginza, 3 Chome−5−3 シャネル銀座ビルディング4階, Chuo City, Tokyo, 104-0061, Japan
21世紀における「クラシック音楽」の行方

2nd Summit on the Future of the Japanese Music Heritage
2014-06-15 10:00 - 18:00 | International House of Japan (Tokyo), 5 Chome-11-16 Roppongi, Minato City, Tokyo, 106-0032, Japan
第2回サミット「21世紀における和楽器の行方」

Wagakki Concert: 「平安の遊び心再発見」
2014-06-14 13:30 - 16:30 | Kioi Hall, Small Hall, 6-番5号 Kioicho, Chiyoda City, Tokyo, 102-0094, Japan
和楽器ワークショップ「古代・中世の名手を現代に」

Semester-End Recital - Spring 2014
2014-04-30 19:15 | St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, 1160 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10027, United States

9th Season of Glories of the Japanese Music Heritage: ANCIENT SOUNDSCAPES REBORN
2014-03-30 16:00 - 18:00 | Miller Theatre, Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Masayo Ishigure, koto

Akira Takaoka

Hitomi Nakamura, hichiriki

Brad Garton

James Nyoraku Schlefer, shakuhachi

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ANCIENT SOUNDSCAPES REBORN
Japanese Sacred Court Music (Gagaku) and Secular Art Music (Hōgaku)
Free and open to the public. No reservation is required. All seats are on a first-come-first-served basis. The door will open 30 minutes before the performance.
Featuring: Remi Miura (sho), Hitomi Nakamura (hichiriki), Takeshi Sasamoto (ryuteki), Masayo Ishigure (koto), James Nyoraku Schlefer (shakuhachi) and Columbia Gagaku and Hōgaku Ensembles.
Part I: Sacred Gagaku Music
Hyōjō no netori (Prelude Mode Centering on the note of E) & Etenraku (Music of the Divine Heavens)
Kashin (Glorious Days)
Sōjō no netori (Prelude Mode Centering on the note of G) & Konju no ha (Ah! Cheers)
Hyōjō no chōshi (Prelude Mode Centering on the note of E) & Kanshū
Part II: Early Modern Winds and Strings for Koto and Shakuhachi
Tadao Sawai, Datura (The Datura Flower)
Kyorei (Bell of Emptiness)
Tadao Sawai, Jōgen no kyoku (The Waxing Moon)
Part III: Contemporary Music for Japanese Instruments
Akira Takaoka, Five Movements on Modulations (new commission) (2014)
Brad Garton, DESU
Presented by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies/Institute for Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives and the Columbia University Music Performance Program.
Partially funded by the Japan Foundation, Toshiba International Foundation, Sumitomo Corporation of America Foundation, and Medieval Japanese Studies Foundation.

Semester-End Recital - Fall 2013
2013-12-04 19:15 - 20:45 | St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, 1160 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Free and open to the public. No reservation is required.
Presented by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies/Institute for Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives and the Columbia University Music Performance Program.
Partially funded by the Japan Foundation, Toshiba International Foundation, Sumitomo Corporation of America Foundation, and Medieval Japanese Studies Foundation.

ARCH Initiative: Lectures on architectural historic preservation by Drs. Satoshi Unno and Yoshito Kikuchi
2013-09-17 18:30 | 200 Fayerweather South, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027, United States
ARCH Initiative
Lectures on architectural historic preservation by Drs. Satoshi Unno and Yoshito Kikuchi (Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties)
Free and open to the public. No reservation is required.
Presented by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies/Institute for Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives and the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP).

Semester-End Recital - Spring 2013
2013-05-01 | St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, 1160 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10027, United States

Summit on "The Future of Japanese Music and Strategies for the 21st Century"
2013-03-09 10:00 - 18:00 | Scandinavia House, Victor Borge Hall, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Free and open to the public.
Presented by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies.
Partially sponsored by the Japan Foundation.
For inquiries please contact the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies.

8th Season of Japanese Sacred Court Music and Ancient Soundscapes Reborn
2013-03-08 20:00 | Miller Theatre, Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Free and open to the public.
Featuring the renowned Japanese Gagaku and Hōgaku musicians:
Mayumi Miyata, shō
Hitomi Nakamura, hichiriki
Takeshi Sasamoto, ryūteki
Masayo Ishigure, bass koto
Akihito Obama, shakuhachi
Min Xiao-Fen, pipa
With Columbia Gagaku and Hōgaku Instrumental Ensembles
Traditional Pieces
Gagaku:
Hyōjō no netori
Etenraku (Music of the Divine Heaven)
Kashin (Glorious Days)
Sōjō no netori
Shukoshi
Koto:
Toikin for K
Shakuhachi:
Chōshi
Gagaku:
Sadachō no netori
Ranryōō
Contemporary Pieces by graduates of Columbia’s music program for Japanese classical instruments
Akira Takaoka, Twelfth Aitake 2 (for shō and computer)
Yuriko Hase Kojima, Mind Mirror (for shakuhachi, bass koto and pipa)
Miyuki Ito, For Betelgeuse (for shō, hichiriki, and ryūteki)
Hiroya Miura, Gossamer Lattice (for shō, hichiriki, and ryūteki)
Presented by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Columbia Music Performance Program.
Partially sponsored by the Japan Foundation.
For inquiries please contact the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies.

Gagaku Master Class
2013-03-07 | NY

Semester-End Recital - Fall 2012
2012-12-10 18:15 | St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, 1160 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Come join the Gagaku Ensemble as they perform pieces from the repertoire of classical Japanese court music and the Hōgaku Ensemble as they present pieces of more modern chamber music.
Free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies.
Sponsored by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, the Columbia Music Performance Program, and the Department of Music

Shakuhachi Workshop with John Kaizan Neptune
2012-11-18 10:00 - 11:30 | Tenri Cultural Institute NYC, 43 W 13th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The workshop is open to everyone, but please RSVP to James Nyoraku Schlefer if you are planning to attend. The fee is $40 in cash.
Co-sponsored with the Gagaku/Hogaku Program at Columbia University
Supported by the Japan Foundation

Yoko Nishi: Koto Recital
2012-10-19 19:30 | Tenri Cultural Institute NYC, 43 W 13th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Ms. Nishi will be performing traditional and contemporary koto pieces. Part of the Daniel Pearl World Music Days
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited so please reserve early. For more information please contact the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies.
Sponsored by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Wayo Center for Cultural Development

Semester-End Recital - Spring 2012
2012-04-25 19:30 | St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, 1160 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10027, United States

Composer's Workshop: New Music for Gagaku & Hogaku Instruments
2012-03-31 11:00 - 17:00 | Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard College, Broadway and 117th Street, New York, NY, 10027, United States

Glories of the Japanese Music Heritage "Japanese Sacred Gagaku Court Music and Secular Art Music: Ancient Soundscapes Reborn"
2012-03-30 20:00 | Miller Theatre, Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Featuring the renowned Japanese Gagaku musicians
Mayumi Miyata, Shō
Hitomi Nakamura, Hichiriki
Takeshi Sasamoto, Ryūteki
with the Columbia Gagaku Instrumental Ensemble of New York
New York-based Hōgaku artists
Masayo Ishigure, shamisen
Elizabeth Brown, shakuhachi
and the Momenta Quartet
Traditional Pieces
Hyōjō no netori
Etenraku (Music of the Divine Heavens)
Goshōraku no kyū
Kashin (Glorious Days)
Bairo
Torika
Contemporary Pieces
Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) for Otto Tomek (2008)
Flower Meditation Dance
Mirage (2008)
Yaka
Protected by the Imperial Japanese Court for more than 1,000 years, gagaku is the world’s oldest living orchestral music. The program includes traditional pieces, as well as works by contemporary composers at the forefront of a revival of this traditional art form.
Presented by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Columbia Music Performance Program
Supported by the Consulate General of Japan in New York
Free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies

Gagaku Master Class
2012-03-29 | 112 Dodge Hall, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, United States

Juilliard Gagaku Workshop
2012-03-28 | The Juilliard School, 65 Lincoln Center, New York, NY, 10023, United States

Semester-End Recital - Fall 2011
2011-12-05 19:30 | St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, 1160 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10027, United States

Japan Rising -- The NINA Duo Celebrating Japanese Composers
2011-12-03 14:00 - 17:00 | Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY, 10019, United States
Yoko NISHI, koto
Yasuka NAMBU, flute
Saturday, December 3, 2011, 2 pm
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Yoko Nishi (koto) started learning koto at the age of four and formally studied koto under the modernist performer-composers Tadao Sawai and Kazue Sawai. In 1980, Ms. Nishi won a prize at the Sankyoku competition at the age of sixteen. After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, she performed in front of the Japanese Emperor and Empress at the Imperial Palace as a representative from the University at an event organized by the Imperial Household Agency. Her repertory ranges from traditional pieces to contemporary works by John Cage and Yuji Takahashi, collaborations and improvisations with Western instruments, DJs, poets, and artists. She has also become one of the lead performers of ancient musical instruments at the National Theatre, Tokyo. She has performed for international festivals and venues including the Moers Jazz Festival (Germany), Bang on a Can Festival (USA), Transonic2003 (Germany), and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 2008, Ms. Nishi performed at an event organized by the governor of Tokyo at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. She was also invited to the London Chelsea Festival in the U.K., and had solo concerts in the USA (Washington, D.C., New York, and Chicago) that same year. In 1009 she gave concerts in Hungary (Budapest) and Germany (Berlin, Koln, Frankfurt, and Munich), and 2010 she performed at the Shanghai Expo, and at the Carnegie Hall JapanNYC Festival (Artistic Director, Seiji Ozawa). She has released three solo albums Fantasma (2002), Seasons of Kumano (2010), and The Sea in a Moonlight Night (2011). Miss Nishi has been a visiting professor of Kansai University (2008-2011) and is currently artist-in-residence at Columbia University (2010-2012). She debuts with Yasuka Nambu (flute) in the launching of the NINA Duo at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in December 2011.
Yasuka Nambu (flute) moved to the U.S. at the age of nine. After graduating from the Juilliard Pre-College, she received her Bachelor of Music degree summa cum laude in only two years at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) on Baur Scholarship. She went on to receive her Master of Music degree, also at CCM on full scholarship, in orchestral conducting. She then went back to her flute studies at the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater Hannover, Germany, where she studied with Prof. Erdmuthe Boehr to receive her performing arts diploma with the highest mark. Since returning to Japan five years ago, Miss Nambu has quickly established herself as one of the leading flutists in Japan. Recipient of the 2007 Osaka Arts Award, the 2008 Sakai Tokitada Music Award of Hyogo Prefecture and the 2009 Kobe City Arts Award, she has performed with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio and Baroqueorchester Arco, Hannover, among others. Concerts and recitals take her throughout Japan and Germany, China (including Hong Kong) and the U.S. In addition to major concert and recital halls, her performing venues include: the Expo 2010 Shanghai, the MS Asuka II Cruise, the Junko Koshino Collection, NHK-TV (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) “Gurutto Kansai Plus,” figure skating exhibitions at the Kansai University, Evangelische Schlosskirche Wittenberg and other churches throughout Germany, and the University of California at Long Beach, USA. She is a Visiting Associate Professor of Ashiya University and an artist-in-residence at Columbia University. She debuts with Yoko Nishi (koto) in the launch of the NINA Duo at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in December 2011.

Semester-End Recital - Spring 2011
2011-04-27 20:00 | St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, 1160 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10027, United States

Glories of the Japanese Traditional Music Heritage - Concert II: "Japanese Sacred Court Music and Ancient Soundscapes Reborn"
2011-03-29 18:00 | Miller Theatre, Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Mayumi Miyata, Shō
Hitomi Nakamura, Hichiriki
Takeshi Sasamoto, Ryūteki
Bridget Kibbey, Harp
Chris Washburne, Trombone
Columbia Gagaku Instument Ensemble
Traditional Pieces
Hyōjō no netori
Etenraku (Music of the Divine Heavens)
Taishikichō no netori
Chōgeishi (In Lasting Celebration)
Batō (Wild Mane)
Sōjō no chōshi
Shundeiraku (Spring Garden Music)
Contemporary Pieces
Yozora (The Night Sky) (1987) (US Premiere)
Utsurohi (Transient) (1986)
Ashibune Bontoro Gō (The Reed Boat “Bontoro”) (2011) (World Premiere)
Reimei (Before the Dawn) (2009) (New York Premiere)
Protected by the Imperial Japanese Court for more than 1,000 years, gagaku is the world’s oldest living orchestral music. The program includes traditional pieces, as well as works by contemporary composers at the forefront of a revival of this traditional art form.

Gagaku Composers' Workshop
2011-03-25 17:00 - 21:00 | 301 Philosophy Hall, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United States
Three composers, Ed Green, Kevin Baldwin, and Alexa Babakhanian, will be premiering 3-5 minute works composed for any Gagaku instruments (hichiriki, shō, ryūteki) and up to one Western instrument for the workshop and they and other participants will have discussion and give feedback. Composers and musicians are welcome to attend the workshop.

Glories of the Japanese Traditional Music Heritage - Concert I: "Winds and Strings of Change" Honoring the memory of Toru Takemitsu
2010-12-16 18:00 | Miller Theatre, Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Organized and Presented by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies
“Winds and Strings of Change”
A concert of Traditional and Innovative Works in honor of Tōru Takemitsu (Columbia University Honorary Doctorate, 1996) performed by eminent masters:

Yoko Nishi, koto (multiple-stringed zither)
Kifu Mitsuhashi, shakuhachi (end-blown bamboo flute)
Yukio Tanaka, biwa (short-necked lute)
James Nyoraku Schlefer, shakuhachi (end-blown bamboo flute)

Semester-End Recital - Fall 2010
2010-12-04 19:00 | 301 Philosophy Hall, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The Koto: Strings in Transformation
2010-11-11 17:30 - 20:00 | 301 Philosophy Hall, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United States
A mini-concert and workshop conducted by Yoko Nishi and Masayo Ishigure
The workshop is free and open to the public. Seating priority is given to Columbia students and professional musicians.

Hokkeji Monzeki, Nara, Japan
2010-05-07 | Hokkeji Monzeki, Nara, Nara, Japan
法華寺門跡開山–光明皇后1250年大遠忌–正倉院復元楽器による献曲
Nara, Japan

5th Season of Japanese Sacred Court Music and Ancient Soundscapes Reborn
2010-03-06 | Miller Theatre, Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Program
Part I: Traditional
Hyōjō netori
Etenraku
Bairo
Kashin
Taishikichō netori
Gakkaen
Batō
Banshikichō netori
Hakuchū
Part II: Contemporary
Sunao Isaji, “Dancing Flute-Playing Girl” (2009), hichiriki solo
Takeshi Sasamoto, “Dōmu”
Elizabeth Brown, “Rubicon” (2009), new commission and world premiere
Remi Miura (shō)
Hitomi Nakamura (hichiriki)
Takeshi Sasamoto (ryūteki)
Columbia Gagaku Instrumental Ensemble of New York
Related event: February 20, 2010
Music from Japan presents Sukeyasu Shiba’s Gagaku Universe
